Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 3

Author of The Jews in Poland and Russia, 3 vols. (Littman Library, 2010–12), also published in an abridged version: The Jews in Poland and Russia: A Short History (2014). In 2012 The Jews in Poland and Russia was awarded the Pro Historia Polonorum prize of the Polish Senate for the best book on the history of Poland in a non-Polish language written in the previous five years. Holds honorary doctorates from the University of Warsaw (2010) and the Jagiellonian University (2014). In 2011 he was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Polonia Restituta and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Independent Lithuania.

• Statement from the Editors Jews in Warsaw Emanuel Ringelbaum, the Chronicler of the Warsaw Ghetto ISRAEL GUTMAN The Undefined Town within a Town: A History of Jewish Settlement in the Western Districts of Warsaw PETER J. MARTYN The Jewish Population in Warsaw at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century ARTUR EISENBACH ‘The Jews have Killed a Tailor’: The Socio-Political Background of a Pogrom in Warsaw in 1790 KRYSTYNA ZIENKOWSKA The Jews of Warsaw, Polish Society, and the Partitioning Powers, 1795-1862 STEFAN KIENIEWICZ Aspects of Population Change and of Acculturation in Jewish Warsaw at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The Censuses of 1882 and 1987 STEPHEN D. CORRSIN Aspects of the History Warsaw as a Yiddish Literary Centre CHONE SHMERUK Jewish Warsaw before the First World War PIOTR WROBEL The History of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Light of the Reports of Ludwig Fischer ROBERT MOSES SHAPIRO Articles The Socio-Cultural Integration of the Jewish Population in the Province of Radom, 1815-1862 ADAM PENKALLA The Religious Orders and the Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland JERZY KLOCZOWSKI The Conditions of Admittance and the Social Background of Jewish Children Saved by Women’s Religious Orders in Poland, 1939-1945 EWA KUREK-LESIK Document Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Talks with Representatives of the Polish Government JERZY TOMASZEWSKI Commentary On Immoral Reason and Illogical Morality ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Reports International Conference on Polish Jews in Jerusalem ANTONY POLONSKY Catalogue of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland ADAM PENKALLA Reviews REVIEW ESSAYS Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century ANDRZEJ POPPE The Polish Borderlands and Nationality Problems HENRY ROLLET BOOK REVIEWS Letter to the Editors Contributors Obituaries